While I am not a proponant of over LL amps. You must admit it is fun to
light up the flourescent lights in all the houses on your block. With that
said, I can see how running such an amp "cool" will provide years upon years
of use in RTTY or other high duty cycle modes. However, there are those
"few" who will tune one of these beasts for maximum smoke just so they can
have the loudest and possibly broadest signal on the band.
I have been toying with the idea of placing a high power bottle(s) in my amp
but, I would first need to make friends with the local electric company and
ask them to put in a more beefier service.
73, CUL...
Bob de K2KI
k2ki@starc.org
----- Original Message -----
From: "Scott Manthe" <n9aa@arrl.net>
To: "Rob Atkinson, K5UJ" <k5uj@hotmail.com>; <amps@contesting.com>
Sent: Tuesday, October 19, 2004 2:25 PM
Subject: Re: [Amps] 5 kw amps -- why?
> Some hams like plenty of headroom. ;)
>
> I know a guy who literally vaporized a legal limit balun on his dipole by
> accidentally running 85 watts into his Emtron DX-3, which produced over
3000
> watts output (pinned his Bird, so he really doesn't know how much over)
with
> that input power. He went outside to see little smoking pieces of the
balun
> all over his yard. I figured that that was enough "headroom".
>
> It should be obvious to anyone who's been an amateur long enough that
there
> are certain guys who "need" $13,000 rigs and 3, 5 or 8KW amplifiers. I
don't
> know why, but I do know what Freud would say.
>
> 73,
> Scott, N9AA
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Rob Atkinson, K5UJ" <k5uj@hotmail.com>
> To: <amps@contesting.com>
> Sent: Tuesday, October 19, 2004 12:12 PM
> Subject: [Amps] 5 kw amps -- why?
>
>
> > After reading a review in Eham today for the Emtron DX4 (2 4cx2500s) by
an
> > American ham, I have a question: Is there any kind of operating at the
> > 1.5 kw pep limit that would necessitate an amp with this kind of plate
> > dissipation? Sounded to me like an invitation to have the FCC park a
van
> > in front of your house.
> >
> > tks
> > Rob/K5UJ
> >
> >
>
>
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